If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.
When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.
There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.
Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.
I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.
I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!
"I spent two hours trying to question reapers without sounding like I was questioning them. What do you think it says about us as a group, that every reaper I know is either irritable, egotistical, voyeuristic, or some combination of the three?" "That you fit in well?"
Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you?
Ultimately, only audiences decide what's a franchise.
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.